In October of last year, CIMA released the report Measuring the Audience: Why It Matters to Independent News Media and How It Can Contribute to Media Development. In the report, Michelle Foster explores how audience measurement can be a tool in gauging the media’s impact on people in developing societies and the implications on local content providers.

One of the most hotly discussed topics in higher education is the role and future of online education. For the traditional university, does the emergence of online education represent a threat or an opportunity?

The recently held First Senior Officials’ Meeting and Related Meetings of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) supported efforts to bolster small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) participation in regional and global markets under the APEC 2015 theme to build inclusive growth in the Asia-Pacific region.

China vowed to step up Internet infrastructure construction in 2015.
Another 80 million homes will be hooked up to fiber optic connections and more than 600,000 base stations will be built nationwide to extend the 4G network so that it covers all counties and developed towns, the minister of industry of information technology, Miao Wei, said on Thursday.

Domestic consumption surpassed investment to become the strongest driving force of the Chinese economy in 2014, indicating a new growth model has already started forming as the country enters a "new normal" development era, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday.